Toni Cade Bambara

Ms. Bambara was an accomplished African-American short story writer, scriptwriter, and documentary filmmaker. In 1970 she put together an anthology of African-American women's writing in "The Black Woman, a Collection of Essays". She also wrote the novel "The Salt Eaters" and collaborated on the documentary films 'The Bombing of Osage Avenue' and 'WEB DuBois-A Biography in Four Voices'. At the time of her death, she was working on a manuscript for a book on murdered children in Atlanta and had just finished a new collection of short stories.